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Discusses development from the colonial era to the present in Latin America, Asia and Africa. Using classical development ideas and current theory it provides students with the type of balanced picture disallowed them by other textbooks

First edition: 1997

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; List of focuses; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Acknowledgments; An overview of economic development; The development imperative; Measuring economic growth and development; Development in historical perspective; Theories of development and underdevelopment; Classical and neoclassical theories; Developmentalist theories of economic development; Heterodox theories of economic development; The structural transformation

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